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Two Shia Kidnapped and Tortured in Syria

Anti-Shia groups kidnapped two Shia Muslims, Ali Taha and Hussein Ibrahim in the town of Hijjera, Damascus on September 29, 2012.

Their bodies were found by residents of the town. According to the witnesses, Ali and Hussein were savagely tortured and then slaughtered.

Shia Muslim are getting killed in Syria and  only few are identified.

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Anti Shia killed 32 in Iraq

iraq_bomb_Anti-Shia groups are targeting Shia all around the middle east. Many families lost their loved one in countries such as Iraq, Bahrain, Saudi and Pakistan. Still United Nation and Humanitarian organization are keeping silent to fulfill their own need without considering the Shia Muslim as a minority with majority of discrimination.

Shia Rights watch will monitor these countries and expose violence toward Shia to the world, until everyone knows that Anti-shi’ism must stop.

In Iraq, anti-Shia terrorist have killed 32 Shia Muslim across Iraq on Sunday September 30,2012.

In Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, bombs in three parked cars went off separately, killing 11 Shia and wounding 24, including several policemen.

Reuters footage at the scene of one of the explosions showed the remains of an exploded car surrounded by several completely and partially destroyed houses and cars.

The Baghdad car bomb exploded, killing eight Shia Muslim including a police officer and wounding another 11.

Another blast targeted a bus carrying Shia pilgrims as it passed through the town of Madaen, about 30 km (20 miles) southeast of Baghdad. It killing two passers-by and wounding another ten, including seven Iranians.

A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up in the city of Kut, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Baghdad, killing four policemen, police and local officials say.

Two more policemen were killed when a car bomb went off in the town of Balad Ruz, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad.

In Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a parked car bomb and two roadside bombs blew up separately, killing a civilian and wounding six.

Anti-Shia groups are targeting Shia all around the middle east.

Shia Rights watch will monitor these countries in hopes of broadcasting the unjust violence towards the Shia community.

Two Shia Muslim killed in Saudi Arabia

Khaled_al-LabbadShia Rights watch strongly condemn the violence in Saudi Arabia and urge the Saudi authorities to stop the killing the Shia in the country.

According to SRW reporter, Saudi security forces have shot dead, Shia Muslim Mohammad Habib al Manasif, a sixteen-year-old boy, on Wednesday as security forces were trying to arrest opposition activist Khaled al-Labbad, who also lost his life in the assault.

Authorities were randomly arresting Shia Muslim who asked for more freedom in the region and police are holding many of them behind the bars without any explanations.
Shia rights watch is monitoring  the  violence against the Shia Muslim in the Saudi and asking the authorities to give the basic human rights to the Shia Muslims, knowing that Shia are largest minorities in the country.

UMMA Convention

umaa_001As a humanitarian reaction to the heart breaking crisis that is ongoing throughout the world, and particularly toward Shiite-Muslims, Shia Rights Watch has officially launched its website (srwpress.com) in coordination with the office of Imam Shirazi World Foundation, headquarter in Washington D.C. During its first visit to the neighboring country, Canada, Shia Rights Watch held an informative booth in the ninth convention of UMAA, Universal Muslim Association of America, and introduced our humanitarian organization to people of all ethnicities, and religions. Shia Rights Watch operates directly under guidance of religious authority, the Great Ayatollah Imam Sayed Sadiq Shirazi, and in coordination with Imam Shirazi World Foundation (ISWF).

The Price of Freedom and Democracy

www.shiarightswatch.com-nabeel.rajabOn Thursday, the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted an event entitled “The Price of Freedom and Democracy: Defiant Bahrainis and the Arab Spring.” The event honored Nabeel Rajab, the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, with the Ion Ratiu Democracy Award. The panel featured Mr. Rajab, Wafa Ali, a Bahraini journalist and public policy scholar at the Wilson Center, Carl Gershman, the president of the National Endowment for Democracy, and Tom Malinowski, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch. Jane Harman, the president of the Wilson Center, gave opening remarks, and Christian Ostermann, the Wilson Center’s European Studies director, moderated the event.

After brief remarks from Harman congratulating Rajab for his efforts, Rajab addressed the audience. He praised the efforts of Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First in drawing attention to Bahrain’s ongoing calls for democratic reform, noting that Bahrain’s revolution was “not a revolution of elites, but of youth.” Rajab called the BICI report “not perfect, but good,” and criticized the report for not holding royal family members accountable for the human rights violations.

Next, Malinowski addressed the audience, giving several suggestions for U.S. policymakers to consider. He asserted that the Arab Spring forced the U.S. government to stop valuing “places over people,” and that the U.S. government must work to accommodate the interests of both sides. Additionally, Malinowski urged the government to stake tangible incentives for true reform in order to encourage quicker change. The Obama Administration must also ask for the BICI recommendations to be instituted to avoid a deepening crisis, he said, but the U.S. must make human rights a priority.

www.shiarightswatch.com-nabeel.rajab1-2On the side of the event Shia Rights Watch representative congratulate Nabeel Rajab for the reward, and the efforts he put in Bahrain to bring democracy and freedom of religion to the Bahraini people. The Shia situation in Saudi Arabia was also discussed with Caryle Murphy an independent journalist and author of Passion For Islam, which explores Islam’s contemporary revival and the roots of religious extremism in the Middle East. Shia Rights Watch suggested that Caryle should look at the Islam from Shia beliefs and study the situation of Shia in Saudi Arabia, since she was one of the many reporters in the Arab Spring.

A Shia Rights Watch representative also spoke to Carl Gershman, the president of the National Endowment for Democracy, and expressed that Shia always welcome Democracy with respect to other ethnicity and religion but  governments discriminatng toward Shia is make them a minority and showing the lack of democracy in the Middle East.

SRW in-IIC Convention

Conv-hyttShia Rights Watch attended the third annual Islamic Information Center convention on  September 2nd.

The main purpose of this convention was to increase Shia activists’ role in the community. This convention also focused on professionalism, civic engagement, activism. The Shia Leadership initiative for Muslims Convention is dedicated to brainstorming ideas, plans, and initiatives to elevate the status of our Shia community in the United States, Europe and Middle East countries. SRW’s founder had a chance to meet with the Department of Homeland  Security, and Department of State representatives and discuss Shia’s situation in the United State and other countries. SRW also, had a chance to speak with  Professors of Harvard and Nebraska University in order so solve the problems that is going on in Bahrain and in Pakistan. Also met with producer of Prophet Muhammad the legacy to discuss the Media’s role regarding stereotypes toward or against Muslim’s in general, and Shia in particular.  Our meeting with Ahlul Bayt TV Executive Director  Sayed Mahdi Modarssi to look for solution to end the Crime Against Shia in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia which is going on for the past couple months.

Shia And The Contemporary Changes

Co-002Shia Rights Watch proudly attended the 11th conference of “Shia And The Contemporary Changes” in Dearborn, Michigan. Over 60 scholars from all around North America attended this conference regarding new generation  of Shia Muslims iin relation to the United States. Studying and analyzing daily involvement of Shia and its growing interest in the internal and foreign politics of the United States was emphasized throughout this conference. Shia Rights Watch was the only humanitarian organization which held a presentation and a Question and Answer session to address the crimes against Shia around the world, and its lack of worldwide representation.

During this conference, Shia Rights Watch spread its message to the scholars and experts present and seeked their daily involvement in assisting a cooperative movement to raise awareness in each Shia community, as well as other communities.

Shia target of inhumane treatment

The 52-page report, “Shia Target of Inhumane Treatment,” documents cases of human rights violations towards Shia in Bahrain. Shia Rights Watch researchers have credibly documented many of cases of unlawful arrests, tortures and abuses. The report specifies 12 different human rights violations toward Shia only in the country of Bahrain.

This unique report contains 15-pages Children’s Right Violation section which documents cases of children’s death, arrest, torture and list of 76 children detained in the Bahrain.

Finally, the report includes 9-pages “Shia Women in Bahrain,” report that states violations toward Shia women in this country.

The report is one of a kind that gathers information about general violations toward Shia and violations toward children and woman.

 

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Pakistani Shia resident was tortured and killed in Quetta

Pakistani Shia resident, Mohammad Taqi from Quetta was killed by Anti Shia terrorism. According to his close friends and family, his body showed signs of torture using knives. He was announced dead before he could be transferred to the hospital.

Quetta is turning into a domain for Anti Shia terrorists supported by Saudi Arabia extremists.

Some among the Shia community in Pakistan believe that Saudi Arabian extremists are funding the anti-Shia terrorists in Pakistan to put a fear into the lives of the Shia. Also, the power that the Saudi extremists gain by spending money may make the government and security agencies seem helpless in response to terrorists.
Shiite genocide in Pakistan is reaching new heights as Shiites are being killed almost every day.

Pakistani Shia Muslim was killed by Terrorists

A Pakistani Shia Muslim, Tatheer Hussain, was killed by Wahabi armed terrorists in the outskirts of the Hangu district of Khyber-PukhtoonKhwa province.

According to informed sources, Tatheer Hussain was abducted by the terrorists of the Taliban five days ago from Lodhi Khel of the Hangu district. His body was recovered from Somari Road of the Hangu district on Sunday morning.
Source:abna.ir

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